He was branded a £40m Paul Dickov about a month ago on bluemoon - things can change fast.

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I am sure that will delight the club and the sponsors.

A couple of wins and you are all back out of the woodwork.

Was that a live interveiw?

Sky Sports have been showing it today.He's obviously got some memory loss from the shock of the shootings and has forgot that he's now a City player

Good listen. Although his reasoning is a bit flawed regarding the pedigree of the backroom staff when he went on about who they used to play for. A good football player doesn't necessarily make a good coach/manager.

Rumours that we've signed Marouane Chamakh. Most people on the forums are pretty excited by his signing. Rumour is he'll be having a £12m signing on fee, as well as £60k a week for 5 years. That signing on fee is pretty huge if I'm being honest, but there is no transfer fee involved so we shall see if it's a worthwhile investment. Hope we've signed him, N'Gog is good and he's developed really well this year, but we need another option up front to go with Torres, it's unfair to put so much pressure on N'Gog at his age.

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I've seen next to nothing of him other than the odd goal in highlights of CL matches. Is he any good?

Is Adebayor stupid or something.

Daft sod.

Get sacked from a struggling championship side and then get a premiership job!??

This story has been denied by Liverpool.

Is this the start of the asset stripping?

I would imagine that United fans are becoming increasingly worried. We have had financial problems in the past. It's not pleasant.

Its aload of £12M for a player who is a free transfer in the summer and is hardly setting the French league alight would be a joke.

Anyone know if you can put a bet on City winning the league in the next 4 years? because its going to happen they won't stop buying and building until the do.

He's still a decent enough player and he's much better than Voronin, Kuyt, Babel and N'Gog. Bordeaux are the French champions and he's been one of their best players. Sure, you could argue he doesn't score enough goals, but him playing up front brings out the best in Gourcuff who we all know is the best player in France.

It's been denied but I'm still pretty confident in our chances of getting him. As soon as the Echo reported it and Chamakh came out saying he'll decide by the end of the month, I felt we had a strong chance of getting him. I don't think we're in a financial position to pay that much money to any player as a signing on fee. I hope we sign him but I won't raise my hopes too high with owners like ours, we don't have the best record of signing players when going up against other big clubs, but I'm hoping Purslow can change this.

He has "a benetiz signing" written all over him then.

the usual talk is coming out of spain that the big guns over there are planning a big bid for Rooney - the results announced would have been horrific had Ronaldo not been sold - interesting times!!!!

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Was that included in the figures? I heard City's "98m" loss didn't include the summer spending. Do the United books published include the Ronaldo sale, Valencia signing etc?

I understand it includes

Ronaldo sale - yes
Valencia signng - no

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I'd guess at Madrid being more likely than Barça.

1-seemingly bottomless pit of money.
2-rumours that this will be Raul's last season of first team football at the Bernabeu.
3-Van Nistelrooy on his way and Higuain being linked with a move away despite him playing brilliantly of late (currently injured however).

it's just marca talk - and Rooney hasn't endlessly talked 'of dreaming of playing in the white of real' but it would be interesting to see what happened if it happened, can't imagine SAF being thrilled.